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I wouldn't mind seeing Gyan at Newcastle, though I'd rather another young English striker like Wickham or Airey to pull through

Imagine seeing Wickham and Airey starting regularly for Newcastle in the next 3 years with a mainly English midfield and backline as well : )
 
Quinn has admitted floating supporters have drifted away from the Black Cats recently, with attendances for recent less-attractive home matches against the likes of West Ham and Bolton in December dropping to around 35,000.

On average Sunderland's 49,000-capacity stadium has been only around 80 per cent full this season - only Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton have less fans as a percentage of their capacity this year.

And Quinn said the financial implications of a less-than-full ground could begin to bite soon, despite the efforts of mega-rich club owner Ellis Short.

'If I don't win them back, the club may have to downsize and cut its cloth differently,' the Irishman said ahead of his proposed tour around the Wearside area in a bid to entice the fans back.

'It'll be difficult to follow up on the current investment and players may have to be sold.

'Manchester United have just announced turnover of £289m; ours is £64m. We can't compete financially with that, and we're missing 10,000 fans.'

Gordon was signed by former manager Roy Keane on a hefty five-year contract in 2007 - with his £10m transfer fee, including add-ons, potentially a British record for a goalkeeper.

And although Quinn admitted the club's financials are a concern, which could lead to the departure of other stars like Gyan despite the recent big-money sale of Darren Bent to Aston Villa, he said the lack of supporters inside the Stadium of Light was as much about atmosphere.


'Our missing 10,000 fans cost us £1.8m over the season so a figure like that won't make the difference in allowing us to compete - it is those fans being inside the ground and making it a hostile place for visiting sides that makes the difference,' he continued.


'What I want from our fans is their atmospheric input. That's what makes the place special.

'If they don't come back, we may not be the club I thought we were
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I think its meant more as a scare tactic to get them back to the games, he said they lose about 1.8mil a year from empty seats, if Ellis Short is "mega rich" he wont miss that too much. Quinn sounds desperate to get them back though, maybe the next move is to say he wishes they turned up as often as their handsome neighbours do to their home games <whistle>
 
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I think its meant more as a scare tactic to get them back to the games, he said they lose about 1.8mil a year from empty seats, if Ellis Short is "mega rich" he wont miss that too much. Quinn sounds desperate to get them back though, maybe the next move is to say he wishes they turned up as often as their handsome neighbours do to their home games <whistle>
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Something along the lines of "Newcastle is a much busier city than us has more pubs and clubs yet they get 52,000 every home game
 
I laughed at him comparing them lot to ManUtd they have a 75000 seater stadium and worldwide support. Muckems 42000 and there support stretch from South Shields to Durham
 
I think that Ellis Short may be putting Quinn under a bit of pressure.

Quinn "sold" the club to Short on the basis that they would fill their ground every week and create an atmosphere that would help the team on the pitch challenge the top 6. Short has kept his part of the deal by investing huge amounts of cash into the club, (last year he had to stump up £28 million to balance the books) and he may be getting pissed off with the fact that even though the team is doing better attendences are falling.

It is strange that he says

'If I don't win them back, the club may have to downsize and cut its cloth differently,'

'It'll be difficult to follow up on the current investment and players may have to be sold."

but then contradicts this by saying

'Our missing 10,000 fans cost us £1.8m over the season so a figure like that won't make the difference in allowing us to compete".

So it sounds to me as if Short has basically said something along the lines of " why should I pump £tens of millions of my cash into the club when the fans won't even fill the stadium?"

It will be interesting to see what happens in the summer and whether they replace their loan signings with other loanees or spend money on permanent signings.
 
The unwashed should sign a couple of Malaysians and a Thai ladyboy, make all the players drive KIA C'EEDs and sell Chinese grub instead of pies to improve their worldwide profile

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